[BFASA] FW: Invitation to Living the California Dream!

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Happy Black Heritage Month!

African Student Programs has a quite a few events happening this month to celebrate our history, heritage, and the heart of our community and you all are invited! Join African Student Programs and the UCR History & Public History Department for Living the California Dream: Black Leisure African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow era! An evening with historian Alison Rose Jefferson where she will share stories about how African Americans from the 1900s to 1960s created recreational and relaxation spaces in Southern California and in the process formed community and created business projects drown from her recent book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era. She will also talk about how some of these stories are being used in contemporary public history remembrance and public policy actions.

As leisure was gaining centrality as part of the American Dream, Black Californians were working to make it an open, inclusive reality for all. African Americans fought for dignity, equal access and the full range of human experience and fulfillment in exploration of California’s offerings as they contributed to the state’s development and the broader freedom rights struggle in the United States. Black entrepreneurs were important promoters at two Inland Empire destinations at Lake Elsinore where architect Paul R. Williams designed a Black-owned resort and the Parkridge Country Club in Corona, along with at Southern California beach communities of Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica and other places. Stay tuned for more events and experiences throughout the month!

February 8th
Tartan & Tweed Room located in the Student Services Building
5:30p
Food and drinks will be provided.

Looking forward to see you all there. Please share far and wide.
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Onward and Upward,

Jamal J. Myrick, Ed.D.
Director of African Student Programs
Pronouns: He/Him/His
900 University Ave.
133 Costo Hall
Riverside, CA, 92521
Schedule a meeting with me: https://bit.ly/2Qupy8g

Tel: (951) 827-5750

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“Every moment is an opportunity for progression.”
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